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Attention, cross-border gas shoppers: Washington state is moving ahead with plans to raise its fuel tax. The state senate has endorsed a bill that would incrementally raise the state fuel surcharge by...

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Trails watchmen are there to push mountain-bike agenda
Thank you for your article, Watchmen on Duty. What Mark Wood, who is a paid North Shore Mountain Bike Association employee, fails to mention is that...

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OTTAWA - A digital petition once famously forced the White House to provide official comment on an oddball suggestion for stimulating the U.S. economy: building a heavily armed intergalactic space station...

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As spring break nears, North Vancouver RCMP are warning that posting about your house parties on social media can turn ugly.“All too often, police see that through social media, a party of six quickly turns into 60-plus and with that comes the potential for some very serious negative consequences,” said Cpl. Richard De Jong in a statement. Three of the parties were hosted by 16-year-old teens whose parents were away. A parent was present at the fourth party but was unaware of alcohol being consumed by minors in the basement, said police.

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A prolific criminal has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison, less credit for time served, for his role in a convenience store robbery turned fatal and a separate robbery and carjacking that happened a couple weeks after that.

The City of Richmond is looking for public input on the issue of language on signs, following debate over businesses using non-English signs in the city. Community members are asked to visit letstalkrichmond.ca between March 6 and 20 to find more information and provide input as part of a campaign to explore the use of “language on signs in the context of community harmony,” according to a release from the city.

Forget Wiarton Willie and all the other prognosticating rodents, here’s someone new to hate when it comes to the lousy weather we’re having – especially in eastern Canada: The Weather Network! Sure, never blame the weatherman for the weather, but […]

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An ill-timed nap in a West Vancouver parking lot landed a man and woman behind bars. The pair were found seemingly unconscious inside an idling vehicle in a parking lot near Marine Drive and Taylor Way on Monday just after 8:30 a.m. A concerned passersby called police, who managed to rouse the sleepy duo from their deep slumber.

The B.C. Coroners Service wants to locate someone who may have inadvertently taken some skeletal remains from a gully in Squamish. It believes a person or persons may have entered an upper south gully of the Stawamus Chief between 3 p.m. on Feb. 26 and noon on Feb. 28 and unknowingly took some skeletal parts.

VICTORIA - Camouflage-wearing hunters set up camp Monday at the British Columbia legislature in an attempt to shoot down big-game hunting quotas they say wrongly favour guide-outfitters and rich out-of-province hunters.

In surveillance video shown to a jury Monday, an agitated-looking John Nuttall is seen pacing around a motel room, giving orders to his wife, Amanda Korody, and obsessing about not leaving traces of DNA for police. Nuttall and Korody have pleaded not guilty to four terrorism-related charges alleging they conspired to explode bombs at the B.C. legislature in Victoria on Canada Day 2013.

ate Friday the news broke that the Manitoba Criminal Code Review Board will allow more freedoms to a man who shocked the country in the summer of 2008 when he beheaded a fellow passenger on a cross-country bus trip.